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duty in English:

1. response response


He made no response.
When it was put that clearly, I was at a loss for a response.
Tom tried to elicit a response from Mary.
Your response is greatly appreciated and will enable us to prepare more efficiently.
If you consider the objective of hibernation, I think it's the response of animals trying to somehow survive the winter season with its lack of food.
The most instinctive act of nearly every creature is to protect its young, and with humans, this response persists for a lifetime.
All I could mumble in response was that when I was a man of fifty, my mother would lean out of the window when I left and remind me not to drive too fast.
On the political level the response was the nationalist and fundamentalist revolt of the Maccabees.
The response from European citizens and their record generosity and solidarity have been immense.
So, she says that our brain's response to real life and online rejection is quite similar, but in the digital world you can be rejected many more times. / The response has been amazing. / The first response is always denial.
He lied to her. Her response was killing him.
When I tried to log on to the system I got a failure response because the database system refused my authentication
This response cannot abandon European principles.
Dear Mr. Smith, please send us your response about the new contract.

2. on


It's so hot that you could cook an egg on the hood of a car.
If you don't want to put on sunscreen, that's your problem. Just don't come complaining to me when you get a sunburn.
on the table
I think it's dangerous to climb a mountain on a day when it's stormy.
We pigged out on pizza and chicken at lunchtime.
The background check on Tom turned up suspiciously little.
Tom boiled some eggs on the rocket stove that he had just built.
Tom lives on a farm with his wife, Mary, not too far from Boston.
You walk on and I'll catch up with you later.
He knows that his critics are waiting to pounce on any slip that he makes.
People often lie about what they did on the weekend, so their friends won't realize how boring they really are.
Even though there were many cookies on the dish, I only ate three.
A bust of Aristotle stands on a pedestal in the entryway.
If it's okay for her to buy a knife, then why on earth can't I?
On Friday evenings, a group of us with spouses working overseas meet at Chuck's Bar and Grill.

3. obligation


It is our obligation to help.
He couldn't leave because he was under an obligation to finish the job. He didn't tell me the whole truth about his financial obligations.
You are under no obligation to divulge that information.
There’s no obligation to go climbing if you don’t want to.
It is the obligation of every worker to pay taxes.
People are presenting reasons for not fulfilling their obligation to respond.
I have obligations in my job.
I think that, today, we are under an obligation to help people.
There's no obligation to come to the meeting.
We need to fulfil our obligations. Teachers have an obligation to treat all pupils equally.
The ​government has an obligation to ​assist ​relief ​efforts.
An employer has a legal obligation to pay social security for his or her employees.
Well, their obligation of course is to pay their taxes, but our advice to them is that they all look at taking their wealth and being philanthropic
We need to fulfil our obligations.
I'm not a Muslim and so I have no obligation to observe the fast but as long as I'm living in the same apartment having consideration for such a custom is important.

English word "duty"(obligation) occurs in sets:

3a vocabulary

4. tax on imported articles paid to the customs



English word "duty"(tax on imported articles paid to the customs) occurs in sets:

money and banking misztal